Guts Magnet Sea

€ 14.00

Chik White is the moniker of Darcy Spidle, jaw harpist,
tape collagist, non-institutional locally-sourced field recordist, and
founder of the OBEY Convention festival. Spidle was part of the Canadian
crust-punk scene in his younger years, but he eventually evolved
towards more adventurous sides of music. In 2009, after obtaining a
collection of jaw harps, his musical output took its most dramatic turn.
Since then, he has released a string of tapes and records on seminal
underground labels like Feeding Tube and Chocolate Monk. His latest
release, Guts Magnet Sea, is a commissioned album for the Braublff (materie und laut)
series; it collects 12 new pieces. The main core was captured during
walks to an islet close to Spidle's home. He taped environmental sounds
and himself playing the harp aloud. Then, the tapes were thrown into the
ocean, becoming co-author for his micro-compositions. The salt
disintegrated the magnetic tape and added burbling and grunting noises
to the original recordings. As such, the pieces deal with questions of
authorship and ownership. The disintegrated pieces are paired to
compositions in which the jaw harp acts as a tool to unleash Spidle's
inner body sound. A jaw harp is macabre at its core, as it can only
produce sound through the cavernous skull. Chik White uses the
instrument to jam with the landscape and weather, holding open a
discussion between outsider and outside. Spidle's music is a
proposition to see culture as a brutal and vital engagement between
humans and the natural world, rather than seeing it as an artificial
division. At its core, one can hear a humble disposition for humankind, a
provisory act in the complex cycle of destruction and rebirth by
nature. Jewel case and fold-out insert with exclusive interview and
essay by Spidle.

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